domineer

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   to control or rule over people in an arrogant, overbearing way

   The director tried to domineer over the committee instead of listening to its advice.

Borrowed in the early seventeenth century from Dutch domineren, reinforced by French dominer, both ultimately from Latin dominari ('to rule, be master'), from dominus ('lord, master').

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